A Patriot Woodworker Check In

[John Morris]

5 hours ago, AzraelRedeemed said:

Carl's Jr. is sounding good

Noooooo, not the bacon chedder cheese burger! Hope you enjoyed it Jesse, it's great to see you here on the forums posting, use this forum as your sounding board, brag board, gripe board, pity board, anything you want board, novel away mate!!!!!!!

[John Morris]

8 hours ago, AzraelRedeemed said:

Editorial rights should always be available to the composer of comments, post replies, or original postings in a specific thread.

It's a great ideal to have Jesse, and it makes sense right?

But, and a big ugly but, all content that is posted in this forum, and any forum for that matter, becomes the property of the forum community as a whole unless it is copy written already and the poster or contributor has intellectual property rights already. It has to be that way. Just imagine, if you, the contributor maintained publishing rights to all the content you posted here, technically you could ask that all your content be removed, and we'd have to oblige. Now magnify that into an all out mutiny, 20 or 30 contributors plan a walk out, and state that while they are walking out, they want all their content to go with them, well then, we just have a forum that dies on the vine immediately.

So for that reason, what you post here, becomes property of The Patriot Woodworker Woodworking Community.

 

Per our Forum Guidelines we state:

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We know that people will have to leave our community (of their own free will or otherwise) from time to time and to that end, we do not delete accounts, posts, or other content posted on our community. All content is granted to us with perpetual electronic publishing rights because any content posted on this community becomes a part of the community, even if you no longer are. You may request an item to be removed at any time, but we will decide when and if to remove content from our community. If you wish to no longer be identified with our community, we will be glad to close your account and alter your profile information to remove all identifying characteristics. After account closure, you will no longer be able to participate in this community and this action is not reversible.

 

I hate tough language in rules and guidelines, fortunately we have never had an issue like the possibility lays out above in he guidelines, but it's there to protect us, our community, and the security of our future as a woodworking community.

@Fred W. Hargis Jr recommended 24 hours, that could be a possibility to leave editing time open.

[HARO50]

The way I see it, the edit feature is for that time when I post something, then think "Darn, I forgot ......." If that flash of brilliance takes longer than three hours to register, all I have to do is "Quote" myself, then add whatever I forgot. 24 hours should certainly please even the most forgetful among us, but as far as I'm concerned, the current settings are fine. Just my $0.05's worth. (Since Canada no longer has pennies.)

John

[Gene Howe]

8 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

The way I see it, the edit feature is for that time when I post something, then think "Darn, I forgot ......." If that flash of brilliance takes longer than three hours to register, all I have to do is "Quote" myself, then add whatever I forgot. 24 hours should certainly please even the most forgetful among us, but as far as I'm concerned, the current settings are fine. Just my $0.05's worth. (Since Canada no longer has pennies.)

John

John, if that "flash of brilliance" doesn't happen in 3 hours for me, it's gone forever. 

[HARO50]

My thought, precisely, Gene! The only other forum I frequent (not wood related) has a one-hour limit for edits. It has never been a problem.

John

[Chips N Dust]

I like the 24 hour idea too

[Stick486]

1 hour ago, Chips N Dust said:

I like the 24 hour idea too

good number...

[Chips N Dust]

1 hour ago, Chips N Dust said:

I like the 24 hour idea too

 

Or better yet, 1 day       

[HandyDan]

A lot of my posts in the Turning Forum are not only what I did but also how I did it.  If down the road I find a better way of doing said operation I would like to go back and change it.  I can't put a time line on that.  I will live with what is decided.

[HARO50]

29 minutes ago, HandyDan said:

A lot of my posts in the Turning Forum are not only what I did but also how I did it.  If down the road I find a better way of doing said operation I would like to go back and change it.  I can't put a time line on that.  I will live with what is decided.

Why not just add to your thread with: "I found a better/easier/whatever way....." and go on from there? That way the original content isn't lost, and members can compare the two processes and decide for themselves which one suits THEM!

John

[HandyDan]

2 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

Why not just add to your thread with: "I found a better/easier/whatever way....." and go on from there? That way the original content isn't lost, and members can compare the two processes and decide for themselves which one suits THEM!

John

 

Down the road they most likely will come to the thread for the how to and not look down into the comments for additional info.

[HARO50]

1 minute ago, HandyDan said:

 

Down the road they most likely will come to the thread for the how to and not look down into the comments for additional info.

If they're in THAT much of a hurry, they're going to screw up somewhere along the way ANYWAY! That way they will learn from experience!

John

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

6 hours ago, Chips N Dust said:

 

Or better yet, 1 day       

I don't know if we need a whole day, 24 hours seems like plenty.

Edited May 10, 2017 by Fred W. Hargis Jr

[Dadio]

On 5/7/2017 at 6:48 PM, olbuck said:

Dadio, i had same problem. ON PREMIUM 7, AT TOP LEFT HAND CORNER, THERE IS  COUPLE SMALL ARROWS, I CLICK ONE GOING TO LEFT, CARRIES BAK TO WHERE I WUZ.

 

 

I think I have found the arrows you are talking about. They are at the bottom of my page, and if I click on the left one it takes me to  long list of topics. I didn't know about this feature before. That is cool, thanks for the tip.

Herb

[honesttjohn]

I would like to see the posts numbered.  Like 10 of 12, 11 of 12, 12 of 12.  And to be able to jump from the beginning to first unread.  Don't know how much trouble that is to set up.

[Stick486]

3 hours ago, honesttjohn said:

I would like to see the posts numbered.  Like 10 of 12, 11 of 12, 12 of 12.  And to be able to jump from the beginning to first unread.  Don't know how much trouble that is to set up.

 

and automatically jump back to the post you replied to after you hit submit,,,

 

3 hours ago, honesttjohn said:

And to be able to jump from the beginning to first unread.

 

to do that -

click on the forum...

then click on the little ball or star that you see to the left of the thread title...

learn to use right click and open in new tabs..... you won't bury yourself or have to back up all the time do a lot of scrolling or get lost as easy...

[steamshovel]

To edit, anytime as long as it is noted after the edit.  To delete a post anytime before a post or reply has been made, if not live with it.

 

 

Preston

[John Morris]

On 5/6/2017 at 10:48 AM, Dadio said:

I think making Kieth the finishing go-to guy was an excellent move , John.

 

The one thing I don't know if you can do, is to have the current topics tag along side the page we are viewing so we can go to the next topic we want to view  without going back to the home page every time.

Otherwise you guys are doing a superb job managing the forum.

Just saying,

Herb

 

Herb I did look into this, and I tested a block next to the current topic view. I can do it, but, the issue is, the block would squeeze the existing topics together too tight, and the existing text and image formatting of all the topics that have been posted, will be misaligned. I am still reviewing this suggestion and seeing what can be done, I like this suggestion.

[p_toad]

On 5/10/2017 at 8:24 AM, Gene Howe said:

John, if that "flash of brilliance" doesn't happen in 3 hours for me, it's gone forever. 

I had a flash the other day and swmbo just laughed and threw a tarp over me. 

[Buckaroo]

WAL YA ASKED.  WOULD BE NICE TO GO TO THE ENTIRE DASH WHEN COMING IN 'STEAD OF PICTURES. I LIKE TO BEGIN WITH PULSE THEN FREE, ETC.,ETC. THANKS